It's a trap!

So, today was a really tedious day. I really need to find some more time for my personal projects. I'm really getting sick and tired of extremely bad management. Still didn't get my paycheck. After a MONTH.

A piece of advice for all of you looking for a job: if you feel that your boss sucks at management and has actually no idea what he's doing, just give it up. It's NOT worth it, just go and find another job. Don't waste your time on something that has no future. I've wasted too much of my time already.

I should have foreseen this. My boss has no idea what he's talking about most of the time. He's in IT business, hires a few programmers, expects them to create some really complicated software within just a few weeks. And he knows as much about programming as an avarage high schooler. Unit tests? MVC? OOP? VCS? Usability? Standard-compliance? None of those ring a bell for him.

He calls himself a project manager, but has no freaking idea how to manage IT projects. It's really frustrating to work by the go-with-the-flow methodology with no documentation, no clear specification for the projects and no real schedule.
And the worst part is he ridicules every modern technology/management method. Agile means nothing to him.

Ok, I'm glad I got it out of me. Now it's time for the weekend chill (with no money :/)...

In Dell we trust...

It is now official. Ubuntu just made another huge step towards world domination :)

Seriously tho, it's a very important moment for desktop Linux. A lot depends on how Dell's efforts work out. It's the first desktop Linux deployment of that scale. Whatever happens, people are gonna associate it with Ubuntu and Linux in general. So, if Dell screws something up, Linux will get labeled as "not working", "problematic" or something like that. Besides that, most users still see Linux as an operating system, not just the kernel. So they will shift Ubuntu's failure/success to other distros as well. Dell has to be very careful not to bust this. I just hope that Canonical will take care of the deal and make sure everything is right.

Kudos for Dell for this move. I wish I'll have a chance to play around with their flavor of Ubuntu (I bet they're gonna mod it up a little to make it more functional out-of-box). Unfortunately here in Poland we're not gonna be able to buy one of those for quite some time. Of course we could just order it in the US and get it sent here, but it would be very troublesome to get any warranty service for it. So no Ubuntu laptops for us now.